In a Holy Thursday ritual symbolizing humility, Pope Francis washed and dried the feet of a dozen residents of a Rome juvenile prison, assuring them of their dignity and telling them “any of us” can fall into sin.

This week on “Inside the Vatican,” hosts Ricardo da Silva, S.J., and Gerard O’Connell discuss how the pope bounced back from bronchitis.

If irony is the opposite of what one might expect, then nothing is more ironic than God.

A Homily for Good Friday, by Terrance Klein

On March 27, 40 men died in a fire in a migrant detention center in Ciudad Juárez. The appalling loss of life has many more authors than the people likely to be punished for it.

The Notre Dame Folk Choir was like a family I did not want to leave behind.

In Holy Saturday meditations, the late pope engaged postmodern thought in exploring the thorniest of church beliefs.

More than the costumes and settings, it is that humanity at the heart of Molly Shannon’s comedy which makes it Catholic to the core.

Building harmony is not only a way of improving the church or being polite, Pope Francis told them, but “an intrinsic demand of the life of the Spirit.”

A Reflection for Holy Thursday, by Jim McDermott, S.J.